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#1202 Ashlee Vance On Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Startups Launching Rockets

The Pomp Podcast

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Peter Beck's Rocket Bike

Peter Beck grew up in Invercargill, which is at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand. He used to put garbage bags around his body to protect himself from the propellants that he made his own rocket engines. It was really just him and two part time people. And it got to to the edge of space as like basically a hobbyist project and then turn that into a company.

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